Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sony Professional Solutions


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   keep. Nakon 04:24, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

Sony Professional Solutions

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Contested PROD. Unnecessary content fork. This can be included on the main Sony article. Lack of independent 3rd party references too JMHamo (talk) 15:08, 7 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Keep The article describes a significant subsidiary of Sony, which deals with a major sector (broadcasting) and is the provider of a number of TV Channels' cameras and control room equipment. Furthermore, there is a page for Sony Broadcast & Professional Research Laboratories, which only consists of solely 3 lines. This article is a) by far not completed and b) already more detailed than the Research Laboratories article. Moreover, SPS is one of the world's leaders in broadcasting, invented 4k technology, and was the first organisation to produce a 3D OB Unit. In terms of merging it into Sony: The article Sony is very long and therefore it wouldn't be appropriate to add all information about SPS in that page, whereas it can be done in this article. For all these reasons, I believe this is significant enough for the page to remain. Muffingg (talk) 15:16, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions.  Everymorning   talk  16:19, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Technology-related deletion discussions. N ORTH A MERICA 1000 16:26, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:36, 7 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Redirect to Sony. such claims should be substantiated with reference to reliable sources.  Q VVERTYVS  (hm?) 17:15, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
 * Comment – I am not going to !vote or do any research here because I have a COI, but this is an important company. They (and now Panasonic) are the leading suppliers of equipment to the broadcast news industry, often because they invented it. For example, the official sites in our articles on Betacam and XDCAM are this company. To find 3rd-party sources, it might be better to search simply for "Sony Professional". That will get hits for the equipment that shoots what you see on the news on TV. About merging to Sony, that could be done, but within Sony it's a different division and a different class of products. The ones in Sony are the ones that are familiar to consumers. –– Margin1522 (talk) 21:40, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Missvain (talk) 07:43, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
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